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 "id": "place/wadi-hunayn",
 "class": "place",
 "slug": "wadi-hunayn",
 "label": {
  "en": "Wadi Hunayn",
  "ar": "وادي حنين"
 },
 "summary": {
  "en": "A deep, hollow valley in the Tihama lowlands between Mecca and Ta'if with narrow gorges where the Hawazin confederation laid their ambush against the Muslim army in Shawwal 8 AH.",
  "ar": "وادٍ من أودية تهامة أجوف جرار بين مكة والطائف، فيه مضايق وشعاب كمنت فيها هوازن لجيش المسلمين في شوال 8هـ."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "place"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "arabia"
 ],
 "periods": [],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [
  "battles"
 ],
 "coordinates": [
  21.47,
  40.1
 ],
 "data": {
  "kind": "site",
  "historical_names": [
   {
    "name": "حنين",
    "note": "واد قرب ذي المجاز بين مكة والطائف"
   }
  ],
  "coordinates": [
   21.47,
   40.1
  ],
  "coordinate_precision": "approx",
  "coordinate_note": "docs/plan/16 §6 (معركة حنين، الوادي باتجاه الطائف)؛ ويكي بيانات Q2300090 قريب منها (21.517، 40.042).",
  "external_ids": {
   "wikidata": "Q2300090"
  },
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "sira-ibn-hisham saqqa 1936, juz' 4 pp. 84–86",
   "generated_by": "Devin",
   "run": "ibn-hisham-batch-2a"
  },
  "sources": [
   "source/ibn-hisham-saqqa"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1,
   "generated_by": "Devin; mined from Ibn Hisham juz' 4 pp. 84–86; coordinates added by Claude Code (subagent), claude-sonnet-5-5"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "وادٍ عريض من أودية تهامة بين مكة والطائف قرب ذي المجاز؛ فيه شعاب ومضايق جبلية كمنت فيها قبائل [[group/hawazin|هوازن]] لجيش المسلمين في [[event/battle-of-hunayn|غزوة حنين]] في شوال سنة 8هـ {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/84-86}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "تضاريسه",
     "markdown": "يصفه الصحابي جابر بن عبد الله بأنه «وادٍ من أودية تهامة أجوف جرار، نحدر فيه انحدارًا» {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/85}. جعلت تضاريسه الوعرة ومداخله الضيقة موقعًا مناسبًا لكمين مباغت نفذه رماة هوازن في الصباح الباكر {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/85-86}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "للزوار الصغار",
     "markdown": "وادٍ صحراوي منحدر بين الجبال، اختبأ فيه مقاتلو هوازن بين الصخور لمباغتة الجيش قبل أن يتجمع المسلمون وينتصروا."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "place/wadi-hunayn",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   }
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Summary",
     "markdown": "A wide valley of Tihama's valleys between Mecca and Ta'if near Dhu al-Majaz; its gullies and mountain narrows hid the ambush [[group/hawazin|Hawazin]]'s tribes laid for the Muslim army in the [[event/battle-of-hunayn|Hunayn expedition]] in Shawwal 8 AH {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/84-86}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "Its terrain",
     "markdown": "The Companion Jabir ibn Abdullah describes it as \"a valley of Tihama's valleys, hollow and steep — we kept descending into it\" {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/85}. Its rough terrain and narrow entries made a fit site for the surprise ambush Hawazin's archers executed in the early morning {cite:ibn-hisham-saqqa 4/85-86}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "For young visitors",
     "markdown": "A descending desert valley among the mountains where Hawazin's fighters hid among the rocks to surprise the army — before the Muslims rallied and prevailed."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "place/wadi-hunayn",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Devin (SWE-2), draft translation"
    ]
   }
  }
 },
 "degree": 4,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "connections": [
  {
   "to": "event/battle-of-hunayn",
   "type": "site_of",
   "inverse": true
  },
  {
   "to": "place/mecca",
   "type": "located_in",
   "inverse": false,
   "confidence": "medium",
   "note": "بين مكة والطائف قرب ذي المجاز."
  }
 ],
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  "event/conquest-of-mecca",
  "person/abu-sufyan-ibn-harb",
  "person/khalid-ibn-al-walid",
  "event/battle-of-hunayn",
  "person/abbas-ibn-abd-al-muttalib",
  "person/attab-ibn-usayd",
  "person/muhammad",
  "place/mecca"
 ],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}